Burning Britain: The History of UK Punk 1980-1984
by Ian Glasper
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Author: Ian GlasperEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2004-08-01
ISBN: 1901447243
Number of pages: 399
Publisher: Cherry Red Books
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Book Review: A solid, well-researched book that's strictly for the fans.
Summary: 4 Stars
Glasper's Burning Britain is a geographically organized "guide" to the British punk, organized as some 92 3-4 page biographical essays, each based on a particular band's career from formation to dissolution. Although discographies are included, along with subjectively-expressed recommendations as to which musical releases might be termed "essential" or indicative of the band's entire corpus, the primary focus is on making sense of each band's personnel changes and on providing readers with information pertaining to chart status and label affiliations.
Most chapters are written from a perspective that maintains a semblance of objectivity when discussing line-up changes, recording sessions, and concerts, but breaks down into personal observation and humorous asides when delivering information on releases and other recorded efforts themselves. Glasper is heavily reliant upon interviews for his material; indeed, each section includes numerous quotes, usually from a single individual involved with the band in question. Glasper inserts quotes from these interviews into his text in order to not only provide a band member's perspective but also to personalize what might otherwise have been a dry and distancing litany of "___ left and then ___ joined."
The work is obviously intended to provide strong chronological, geographical, and biographical data on each of the bands covered and not to generate (except indirectly) any sense of what the larger scene and subculture might've looked like. Glasper's method of concentrating each biographical band section entirely on the band itself and of mentioning concerts, labels, events, and media programmes only in direct relation to the band at hand limits a reader's ability to construct a scene image. Put shortly, there is no cohesive narrative to keep a reader moving along. Instead, one is left with a somewhat blurry idea of what events, concerts, and connections between the bands of what he calls "The Second Wave" might have looked like.
There are other books for that, some already out there and some unpublished, and Glasper's book is an interesting and erudite contribution.
Summary of Burning Britain: The History of UK Punk 1980-1984
Featuring hundreds of brand new interviews and photographs, Burning Britain is the true story of the UK punk scene from 1980?1984 told for the first time by the bands and labels who created it. Covering the country region by region, Ian Glasper profiles not only big names like Vice Squad, Anti Pasti, and The Defects, but also the more obscure bands of the era such as Xtract, Skroteez, and Soldier Dolls.
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